From 9bdd048db492276ee81759de114d43e7373cdda3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Love Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 22:18:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update font information. --- INSTALL | 32 ++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 3adb21db0af..f10594d4b13 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ GNU Emacs Installation Guide -Copyright (c) 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2000 Free software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (c) 1992, 94, 96, 97, 2000, 01, 02 Free software Foundation, Inc. See the end of the file for copying permissions. @@ -120,13 +120,13 @@ first, just unpack Leim, build Emacs again, and install it again. * intlfonts-VERSION.tar.gz -The intlfonts distribution contains X11 fonts that Emacs needs in -order to display international characters. If you see a non-ASCII -character appear as a hollow box, that means you don't have a font for -it. You might find a font in the intlfonts distribution. If you do -have a font for a non-ASCII character, but some characters don't look -right, or appear improperly aligned, a font from the intlfonts -distribution might look better. +The intlfonts distribution contains X11 fonts in various encodings +that Emacs may need to display international characters. If you see a +non-ASCII character appear as a hollow box, that means you don't have +a font for it. You might find one in the intlfonts distribution. If +you do have a font for a non-ASCII character, but some characters +don't look right, or appear improperly aligned, a font from the +intlfonts distribution might look better. The fonts in the intlfonts distribution are also used by the ps-print package for printing international characters. The file @@ -205,17 +205,21 @@ configure should avoid such old versions. If that happens, use the * Extra fonts To take proper advantage of Emacs 21's mule-unicode charsets, you need -a Unicode font. For information on Unicode fonts for X, see -, - and -. +a Unicode font. For `Unicode' (ISO 10646) fonts for X, see + (packaged in Debian), + (packaged in Debian). Perhaps +also see . + has basic fonts for Emacs's ISO-8859 charsets. XFree86 release 4 (from and mirrors) contains font support for most, if not all, of the charsets that Emacs -supports. The font files should be usable separately with older X -releases. +currently supports, including iso10646-1 encoded fonts for use with +the mule-unicode charsets. The font files should also be usable with +older X releases. Note that XFree 4 contains many iso10646-1 fonts +with minimal character repertoires, which can cause problems -- see +etc/PROBLEMS. DETAILED BUILDING AND INSTALLATION: -- 2.39.2